Subversive silences
Subtitle: nonverbal expression and implicit narrative strategies in the works of Latin American women writers
By: Helene Carol Weldt-Basson.
Publisher: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Madison
Language: eng
Number of pages: 277
ISBN-13: 9780838641729
Subjects: Spanish American fiction -- Women authors -- History and criticism; Spanish American fiction -- 20th century -- History and criticism; Nonverbal communication in literature
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Language and silence : a theoretical overview; title: Paradoxical silence; title: Paradoxical silence; title: The encoded silence of Rosario Castellanos : coding, paradox, and parentheses; title: Hyperbolic silence : agony and irony in the works of Isabel Allende; title: Symbolic silence :  Rosario Ferré's : equation of women and Puerto Rico; title: Parodic silence : ritual and genre in Laura Esquivel; title: Cultural silence : naive narrators, inverted icons, and bilingual gaps in the works of Sandra Cisneros; title: Toward a feminist poetics of silence.